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The biggest influence on my personal photography has to be the New Topographics movement; modern landscapes defined by the visible tension between the natural world and the manmade. Landscapes of mundane structures in post-war America: parking lots, suburban homes, crumbling coal mines, dying malls. Notable artists include Stephen Shore, Edward Burtynsky (the GOAT), William Eggleston, Brian Ulrich, Bernd and Hila Becher, Lewis Baltz, Robert Adams.
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Much in the same way Edward Hopper explored solitude and banality in industrialized America, Stephen Shore sought many of those same themes irl, taking interest in familiar locations like gas stations or motel swimming pools.
Shore shot a lot of his work (most notably his book Uncommon Places) on road trips across the United States, and would meticulously journal his activities as he progressed from East to West. Reading about what Shore had for breakfast and what the room he watched television in looked like the morning he took photos like the one below is really enjoyable, particularly when his activities feel almost as antiquated as the parking lots of wing-tipped Cadillacs he photographs.
His photos ultimately reveal an extreme technical proficiency and mastery of composition, which allows us to look at extinct moments with full lucidity.
Shore shot a lot of his work (most notably his book Uncommon Places) on road trips across the United States, and would meticulously journal his activities as he progressed from East to West. Reading about what Shore had for breakfast and what the room he watched television in looked like the morning he took photos like the one below is really enjoyable, particularly when his activities feel almost as antiquated as the parking lots of wing-tipped Cadillacs he photographs.
His photos ultimately reveal an extreme technical proficiency and mastery of composition, which allows us to look at extinct moments with full lucidity.
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Why do people leave the beautiful scenery that is a Midwest Highschool to the mediocre photographers like myself?
Get Jerry Uelsmann in here and his work is practically done for him!
Get Jerry Uelsmann in here and his work is practically done for him!
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๐ซตI ask myself this a lot and I think you should too.
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โEverything in your life does not have to be subscription based, and subscription does not equate a service being good. If Iโm paying $24.99 a month to watch Netflix in 4K UHD, I should expect to see what I pay for, not subpar playback latency, low bitrate streams, many app crashes, and overall looking terrible on anything that isnโt a 4K display.
Remember when you could buy things and own them, like, forever?
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Remember when you could buy things and own them, like, forever?
There is a better world out there past Netflix, Hulu, Spotify and Amazon Prime.
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